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How do you watch RabbitMQ messages without consuming them?

You may find yourself needing to live monitor messages from a web page as they are being processed through RabbitMQ. This can be useful to monitor a logging message queue, obtain the processing status of a system as it’s state changes, etc. Here, we’ll explore an approach to getting this done. Even better, we’ll do this with pure HTML and javascript for a light-weight front-end only approach, leaving server backend code, behind.Continue reading How To Monitor RabbitMQ Messages→

What is a JWT?

The JSON Web Token is a safe way to transfer JSON data through a URI query string, HTTP header, or other transport means. This is a great alternative to maintaining session state without session variables and the explicit need for a database to lookup sensitive information.

There are times as a developer you will need to run applications such as Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio as Administrator or as a Windows user under another domain account that your machine isn’t joined to. For example using runas while connected to a VPN. One of the issues you may run into is the mapped drives you’ve set are no longer visible to the application because they are mapped to the user you’re logged into the machine as rather than the user you’re running the application as.

The mount Command

The most common use of the mount command in Linux is to mount a file system from a block device such as a hard drive, usb stick or an image file. The mount command also has an option to mount a directory.